Newcastle Interested in Columbian International Forward

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

11:15pm Friday, May 30th, 2014

Commented 58 times

There’s a decent chance that Italian Cagliari could let go of their 24-year-old striker/winger Victor Ibarbo, and the news is that Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has been alerted to that possibility, with the fee being around £8M.

Victor Ibarbo – Newcastle interested We all know Newcastle are in need of maybe three strikers this summer, to replace those who are leaving the club (Shola Ameobi, Luuk de Jong and Loic Remy), and Newcastle continue to be linked with many strikers so far this summer.

The 24 year-old was born in Tumaco, Colombia and he has 7 full caps for Columbia, and he has been included in the Colombian World Cup squad.

Ibarbo started his football career at Columbian club Atletico Nacional, and he joined Cagliari in July of 2011 for just under £1M.

Ibarbo can play either on the wing or up front as a striker, and while at Cagliari he has played 111 times for the Serie A club with 13 goals and 11 assists, so he has not been a prolific goalscorer in Italy.

But as usual this summer, Newcastle will face some severe competition, and Barcelona, Stuttgart, Juventus and Napoli are all said to be interested in signing the player.

One thing that may be in Newcastle’s favor is that he has said he would be interested in a move to England’s Premier League, and there seems to be interest from English clubs.

58 comments so far

Saw this headline and was hoping it was Bacca! never seen ibarbo play centre forward so can’t judge, only ever seen him wide right! Hes fast as though! Colombia are my bet to be a surprise bet for the WC

Good grief, how many are we going to be linked with? This is NUFC ffs – it takes us weeks just to put a LOW bid in, let alone negotiating a sale & contract. What a farce, its a bloody fiasco out there.

seems to be a shortage of good young English defs coming through I can see him fetching big money next season thought jones and smalling would have come on a lot better than they have, man u and defenders they just seem to get injured all the time

welshgeordie9 @ 8 More to the point, Does anyone think Newcastle are going to struggle next year? If we had a pound for every player we have ‘eyed’, ‘considered’, ‘been interested in’ and ‘monitored’ we’d all have enough money now to buy Ashley out. As usual, the days are slipping by and the rumours are just what they are – rumours. Soon we’ll all be sitting at our PC’s late at night, waiting for the final minutes of the window to tick away, complaining bitterly that all we’ve bought for next season is a kid with ‘potential’, a free transfer and a loan player who is using us as a ‘stepping stone’. We’re all being taken for bloody mugs by Ashley and we’re sitting here letting him do it. We really deserve everything we get.

If Ashley is carrying on in the worst possible way, having linked us so inextricably with himself and Sports Direct, then you’d imagine he’s staring down the barrel of a very public comeuppance. I can’t see it happening. Ashley might be penny wise, but he’s certainly no dope. He’ll give us a top half team, which is quite likely our lot, but little chance of less and some chance of ultimately more. Strangely enough, the longer he’s here the more likely he’ll eventually give back. You can’t take it with you, and he already has so much.

Speaking of John Stones, my best mate used to play with him during his time at Barnsley. Apparently an old head on young shoulders, very mature and down to earth. Has a bright future ahead of him, that’s for sure.

Not sure about Ibarbo, doesn’t seem prolific enough to deal with the Premier League. I personally would be aiming a lot higher, someone like Alessio Cerci who can play up front or on the wings. Then again, this is all hypothetical, I have ambition for my beloved football club to do well. Ashley does not.

a top 10 team you reckon is that for our current manager so really he will buy us a top 5-6 team so we can account for pardew cock ups and the end of season fall apart that has happened for the last 2 seasons

I tend to view Ashley as the villain and Pardew like a duck on water, largely composed, but thrashing around under the surface for momentum. Might be being overly generous to a mediocre manager, but I think if Ashley gave him a genuine top six squad, odds on that’s where we’d finish.

I still can’t believe people think we will bring any quality to the team.

CABELLA ain’t coming to the Toon, we are after rejects and rejects only.

all this BS about Cabella is just a smokescreen so we can nick Sidwell & Bent, no doubt NUFC told papers to post just nonsense so that they think that we think they tried to get him over the line , we are the fans and we know more about football then them cockney tw@ts

I bet there isn’t 1 club in the whole world that would want Pardew there, even when the rumours where spreading saying Palace wanted Pardew but there wasn’t 1 Palace fan that wanted him there so there chairmen looked the other way

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